Beautiful Lie In

Beautiful Lie In opens crisp and airy, a delicate pear accord lifted by dewy lily of the valley and a whisper of aldehydes, that fresh, just-out-of-the-shower feeling Lazy Sunday Morning made famous. The heart turns soft and powdery as iris takes over, a touch of orange blossom and rose adding a clean floral layer that never goes soapy. The base is all comfort: a warm, slightly woody patchouli and ambrette folded into a cosy white musk, the freshly-laundered-sheets accord at the heart of the original. Against Margiela's Lazy Sunday Morning, this clone keeps the clean-floral-musk idea intact but renders the iris less refined and the musk a touch more generic, losing some of the original's expensive, skin-like subtlety. Lazy Sunday Morning is already an intimate, short-lived scent; the dupe sits softer still, a quiet, comforting trail for a few hours before it hugs the skin. As an affordable everyday clean-skin scent for warmer days and the office, it delivers the cosy mood well.